Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization Under Atatürk and Reza Shah

touraj atabaki erik-jan zürcher

In this book, the authors trace the emergence of Atatürk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, which led to the introduction of European social models, the establishment of dictatorship and of secularist reforms. In both cases, this resulted in highly authoritarian, nationalist, and quasi-westernized states, and the personality cult of the leader.

Genres historynonfictionpoliticsiran

234 pages, Hardcover

First published January 3,2003

This edition

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 3, 2003 by I.B.Tauris
ISBN: 9781860644269
ASIN: 1860644260
Language: English

About the author

touraj atabaki

Touraj Atabaki is a professor of the "Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia" at the Department of History of the University of Amsterdam and a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History. Dr Atabaki is also the President of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), a member of the Conference of the Presidents of the European Associations for Asia Studies, a member of the Council of the Society for Iranian Studies, the visiting senior research fellow of the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's College, University of Oxford), and the visiting professor at the Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Moscow. He is also a member of several editorial boards, including the Journal of Azerbaijani Studies, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter, the Central Asian Survey, and The Review of International Affairs board.[1] He is also an expert on Iranian Azeris.[2] He is member of the board of the International Qajar Studies Association and Director of the Qajar Studies and Documentation Centre. In 2012 Atabaki joined the Board of Advisors of the International Museum for Family History.